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johndarnielle:

jhermann:

so Aili told me this thing from one of her courses (? maybe? or from another source? not sure) but basically it goes like this: if you tell someone about something you’re going to do for self improvement or whatever, before you actually do it, then you get the reward of social approval without…

an inverse corollary to this is you have to avoid talking too much about work in progress lest somebody tell you “you know what would be great would be if you did that thing you’re working on only you did it in a chicken hat” or something like that, and then you feel the air in the tires of your idea escaping so fast you can hear it and then by morning you’re like, well, there you go, seemed like a cool idea but now it’s forever chicken hat

admittedly this is less a general truth than a personal neurosis I should probably address in therapy instead of right here in front of everybody

well, time to finally start p90x and also be that chicken hat i’ve been looking into for a while